Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-13
Straps aud fafts.

certainly does diminish crime, ana point
with exultation to the fact that Tor the
f3rst time in the history Of Iowa, the pen
iteutiary at Fort Madison, is without q
sufficient number of convicts to enable the
authorities to fill contracts made upon the
basis of the usual supply.
The new capitol of Texas is to be in the
shape of q Greek cross, with rotunda and
tall dome at the intersection OF the main
corridors. It is 562 feet long and 2oS feet
in greatest width, classical in style, ana
approximating to the National capitol at
Washington. It will be the largest State
capitol in the. Union.
The State Supreme Court of Missouri,
in the case of Brooks alias Maxwell, con-
demned for the murder of G.. Arthur Prel-
Ter. and sentenced to be hanged August IL,
has overruled the motion for a rehearlng.
A reprieve was granted to defendant I'M
til August 18th. The defense will take an
appeal to the United States Supreme
Court.
The Forty-Sixth Ohio Regiment, with
out the fear of Governor Foraker before
their eyes, propose to return to the Ihlr-
tieth Louisiana, the battle flag which they
captured from that regiment in July, 1854.
The two regiments will hold a reunion
sometime in August, and the Governor
will probably not undertake to interfere
with the festivities.
Half Of the new quays at Tug, a Swiss
watering place, fell into the lake last
Tuesday night. Forty houses, a crowded
inn and the Hotel Zurich, a four.story
structure. full of visitors, vanished entire
". The occupants of the building were
enpnlfed while they slept, and at least 100
perishedI The scene Of the catastrophe is
the capital of the canton of Tug, situated
on the east shore of the lake of that name,
and 50 miles northeast of Berne.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, was hung
in efigy last Friday at Dalton, from the
palloWs erected to hang Holman who was
sentenced to death for numbering young
woman in Whitfield county last year, be-
cause he committed the sentence 10 I'M
prisonment for life. Four thousand peo-
ple. who had hocked to Dalton to witness
the hanging of Holman, became so indig-.
nam at Governor Gordon's action, that
they heaped upon his efigy every In
dignity.
If the concentric rings in trees are a
correct index of their age, that mysterious
structure near Manchester, Coffee county,
Tenn. called the Old Stone Fort, is OF a
very ancient origin. The trees growing
on the rude stone walls that surround the
old structure show, by their rings, fully
five hundred years growth. These trees,
now being cut away, are the only witness
es to the age of the stone work. Will their
testimony be accepted by historians?
Will the ~antiquarians ever find out who
built that old stone fort, and for what pur-
pose?
The Evangelist Sam Jones was all the
rage in Baltimore last winter. thousands
were turned away every night because
thew could not secure seats in the nall
where his services were held. On Satur-
dav night the r~evivalist delivered a lect-
ure to which an admission fee OF hfty cents
was charged. Instead of the thousands ne
was accustomed to speak to in Baltimore,
there were not a hundred people in the
hall. But Jones struggled on with ms
Georgia philosophy for an hour, and then,
abiding to certain contrasts, exclaimed !:
"Good Lord, how a ifty-cent admission
thins them out!"
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
piyen formal notice to its owners of the
abandonment by the government OF the
land at Summerville, S. c., recently occu-
pied as an experimental farm. The per-
manent improvements made by the gov
'ernmept revert to the owners of the prop
erty. In giving this notice the Commits
sioner writes ION behalf of the govern
ment / desire to express its appreciation OF
the public spirit of the late MI. Middleton
in SO generously cooperating in the lmpor-
tant experiments which have been made
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which nave
been none the less valuable because they
proved futile"
The most exciting and extraordinary
election ever held in Floyd county, Ga,
occurred last Saturday, in which Prohlol-
ton won by a five hundred majority out OF
a registered vote of 2,9O7. Three out of
eleven county precincts gave majorities
spainst prohibition. There were many
ladies, girls and children present all day.
The voting was done at the court house.
Ladies furnished free dinners to negroes
voting Prohibition, and such white men
as desired were also bountifully fed with a
Prohibition meal. Prohibition banners
and transparencies adorned the grounds,
whilst a negro brass band attachment from
Atlanta RECALLED the locality with music.
Della Heinby, son of the old head
chief of the Cherokee nation, was put upon
trialin Arkansas charged with the murder
of his sweetheart. He pleaded not guilty,
and then began to sing the wild death song
of his tribe, and continued till out or
court. The murder of the fine Indian girl
HAS IScullCO III gliO VA
riors of the Choctaw tribe Ito which the
girl belonged) and adjoining tribes who
took q hand in the family fight. Young
Heinby, while pleading not guilty, deem
ed it best, in view of the situation, to at
tune his voice to the death song"
"A negro named George Griffith was
lynched at Lexington, Ga, at about l
O'Clock last Sunday morning. On Friday
night he entered the room Of Miss Sallle
Schakelford, q highly respected young
lady, and attempted to outrage her. He
concealed himself in the house until she
retired, when he entered her room. When
Miss Schakelford discovered his presence
he seized her by the throat. The young
lady fought desperately and tore his face
badly with her nails. A child's scream IN
another room frightened him and he es-
capped. A dog tracked him and he was
captured. He was given a terrible beat
ing. The crowd had a rope around his
neck early in the evening, but were dis
suaded from carrying out their Intention
by other parties. At l o'clock Sunday
morning, however, he was taken from the
Jail and hanged.
w. H. Heard, a colored man of Charles
ton, S. c., who complained to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission Of discrimin-
alton against him on account of color by
the Georgia Railroad, has reduced his COM
plant to the form of an affidavit, which doc
ument has been received by the commits
sion. It sets forth that complainant having
purchased a first class ticket from Cincin-
natl to Charleston, was, when in company
with DR.. Wesley j. Gaines and Mrs. Jennie
Gunsagger, compelled by the employees OF
the Georgia Railroad at Atlanta to enter
what is known on said Georgia Railroad
as the "Jim Crow car" This car, he AYERS,